Undercurrent

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There are a few exceptions, though--the blues come gleaming through on the limber "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" and the more reflective "Romain.

But there was a danger attached to their proposed recording; as Peter Pettinger points out in his Bill Evans biography, How My Heart Sings, both the guitar and piano are chordal instruments and a duet presented the risk of overcrowding and acoustic collision. The jacket of this album is not glossy and succeptible to smudges from picking it up with dirty hands, or ink transfer if stacked against other records.Evans is long gone and Hall much more recently but thankfully they made this iconic recording and wrapped it in a timeless vacuum that transcends all those years since its brilliant creation. Questo disco rappresenta una pietra miliare nella storia del jazz e rappresenta ai massimi livelli la capacità di interplay e di arrangiamento di due musicisti straordinari, quali Evans e Hall, che condividono la stessa idea di suoni. Dream Gypsy shows them separating again, fashioning fragments and jigsaw puzzle-pieces of a tune, scattering them for the listener to assemble. This is the epitome of a jazz duo, two artists collaborating at the highest level to create musical art. I've wanted this record for a long time, but it's not easy to find in the used bins in clean condition, and this is a reasonably quiet pressing (although by no means silent).

Neither musician is trying to dominate the conversation but just attempting to enhance each others playing in a quiet sensitive way. My favourite pieces at the moment are Evans' own composition "Romain", which is an extraordinarily melancholy piece of NY bedsit music. The still strikingly modern looking cover uses the image of “A model floating in the water at Weeki Wachee Spring, Florida. We will introduce you exclusively to Duologi finance products provided by Specialist Lending Ltd t/a Duologi through the Deko platform. I have a nearly perfect copy except for smudges and I don't know how to clean it, or if that is possible.

Bill Evans catapulted to the top of the jazz world in June 1961 after reeling off three straight masterpiece sessions at New York's Village Vanguard with his trio.

While Evans managed to sit down for a few one-off takes between LaFaro’s passing and these April-May 1962 dates, he largely remained on hiatus and abstained from recording. If you love jazz, you need this easy -to-listen-to, let's relax with a drink and have some ear candy.It gets all the stars because is is a great modern jazz album performed as only the late, lamented Mr Evans could arrange and do. For me it's up there with the Hall, Baker, Desmond recordings, my all time favourite before Undercurrent. This reissue does an outstanding job of reducing noise from the master tapes — now well over fifty years old — without sacrificing musical detail.

Whether it owes to the intimate pairing, he and Halls' brotherly chemistry, or the exquisite selection of program material, the results consistently come across as the equivalent of a private meditation, such is the level of introspective depth and quietly shaded interplay throughout. As Hall's solo gets under way Evans provides a pointillistic background that grows in intensity, urging on the guitarist, who replies with increasing heat before passing things off to Evans and getting into some spirited comping of his own. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Some reissues include four bonus tracks, including two alternate takes and previously unheard versions of "Stairway to the Stars" and "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You.In his November 26, 1962 review for DownBeat magazine jazz critic Pete Welding states: "This collaboration between Evans and Hall has resulted in some of the most beautiful, thoroughly ingratiating music it has been my pleasure to hear.